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by porker 7y ago
> What does Vultr have that they don't? According to multiple HN users, a more unreliable (internal) network.
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by porker 7y ago
There is a SQLite decimal extension, unfortunately still under development and not finished: https://chiselapp.com/user/lifepillar/repository/sqlite3deci...
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by porker 7y ago
>> Nix is an absurdly complex piece of software >I'd argue the opposite—it's beautiful in it's simplicity. It's a tool that lets you express how to create something in a deterministic way. I'd take a differ
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by porker 7y ago
> Docker is a tool that lets you package a Linux distribution and roll it out on any random server cleanly and safely. But the stuff inside that distribution is still very much bespoke and unmaintainable. This, a thousand times. If you a
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by porker 7y ago
I never understand why static site generators expect me to write the real link in my content, rather than a placeholder e.g. tofile:foo/bar.md which the SSG replaces with the permalink.
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by porker 7y ago
I don't understand escaping properly. Why, on some machines (all varying distros of Ubuntu) does find -name *.xml return nothing and I have to use find -name '*.xml' whilst on other machines the first comman
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by porker 7y ago
Hadn't heard of it until now, taking a look. Thanks.
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by porker 7y ago
I still use Launchy on Windows 10, alongside the native search. The plugins Launchy has like for Putty integration make it invaluable. It's a shame it's no longer developed.
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by porker 7y ago
I sat through a Xeon Phi presentation at university, about how it would revolutionize the university's "supercomputer". I left shortly after; did Phi come to nothing?
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by porker 7y ago
Postmark used to take this approach and it was awesome. Now they've switched to a subscription model for new accounts :(
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by porker 7y ago
> Ideally I want to be able to do fulltext realtime search over anything that I ever had in my visual field. Not even necessarily text, but audio and video as well. Where I find all these systems break down is recall. They're design
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by porker 7y ago
And still Mac only :(
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by porker 7y ago
A couple of posters on HN say Vultr has intermittent internal network problems. I've found no wider mention of this - can anyone confirm? I ask as their High Frequency Computer looks (and in testing has been) good, but if the internal
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by porker 7y ago
If your SSH logins are key-only (and they should be) then fail2ban is unnecessary IMO. No one is going to gain access without your private key, and while it's a nice feeling that the bad actors are "blocked" - fail2ban is usi
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by porker 7y ago
Also: UpCloud https://www.upcloud.com
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by porker 7y ago
> At Netflix, in my larger work group, we have at least 7 FreeBSD committers Oh that's good to hear. Reading Brendan Gregg's blog [1] I got the impression that Netflix had switched to Linux. 1. http://www.brendangreg
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by porker 7y ago
Do you have any recommendations for learning to communicate better- like the way you do? Did you follow any courses or books to develop your tone, writing style or the graceful way you respond?
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by porker 7y ago
I wonder how much Fastly's pricing impacted this? OT but my clients are small players (10s of GB traffic a month); but they value availability and low latency for their dynamic content. Fastly (and varnish) are ideal for this, but ever
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by porker 7y ago
That is really good to hear. I hate working with OAuth2 (though working with SAML at present, I'm beginning to wish for OAuth2...)
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by porker 7y ago
It wasn't their skill-set. They had problems with their hosting from the start; reliability problems IIRC, not data loss.
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by porker 7y ago
> Why would I buy domain from them when something like namecheap, even google domains exists? Why would I even host something there? If you're in Europe, they're cheap for many European countries' domains. Back 10-15 years
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by porker 7y ago
I like his comments on http://www.pmail.com/devnews.htm : "I'll resist the urge to let loose, though, and simply say that (1) "Less-secure applications" is crude scare-mongering by Google that means littl
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Ask HN: Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical replacement?
1 points by porker 7y ago|1 comments
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by porker 7y ago
My understanding is that gated content is not compliant with GDPR which requires consent to be given freely and unconditionally. Can anyone comment?
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Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (2014)(cl.cam.ac.uk)
98 points by porker 7y ago|86 comments
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by porker 7y ago
Ah thanks. I'm using SwiftKey Keyboard. I found I am faster typing with it than Gboard. Perhaps time to try again.
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by porker 7y ago
> Emoji are hard to type on non-mobile platforms On Windows they are easy: <Windows key> + . Finding the right emoji is easier than on my Android phone as Windows lets me type the emoji name. Why emoji search is missing on Android.
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by porker 7y ago
They're a provider I haven't heard of before. Following your link, what does "Billing period 6 Months" mean? Elsewhere on the page it says: "Hourly based billing. Tariff can be terminated at any time."
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by porker 7y ago
> Am I the only one who think this way? No. But redoing it all from scratch and getting mindshare is difficult. Substance.io is one project I've followed for years who aim to do this, and the time, false starts etc show just how t
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by porker 7y ago
LyX [0] eat your heart out. It's good to see competition in this space as LyX's development has slowed the last few years. I still like it, but will be interested to try this alternative. 0. https://wiki.lyx.org

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